I remember the days when an Eva Pic Thread would last only a few months until reaching the 100 page limit. This one has taken over 2 years.

That might be the most significant touchstone of all for how slow this forum has gotten in the years since 3.0's release.

Among the people who use the Internet, many are obtuse. Because they are locked in their rooms, they hang on to that vision which is spreading across the world. But this does not go beyond mere ‘data’. Data without analysis [thinking], which makes you think that you know everything. This complacency is nothing but a trap. Moreover, the sense of values that counters this notion is paralyzed by it.

Voted in college to be Most likely to Take Over the World, how to do that however, will require at leastFour Evangelions. Thanks for the idea Misato-san!"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Said at the beginning of the nuclear age by J. Robert Oppenheimer."That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Words of Wisdom from German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Asuka has the high ground there but it's not the same pose and Asuka is never pictured with that angle, only like this:

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It's also different because in both scenes they are in the same space with no obstacles between them for the first time in the movie and Asuka is accusing Shinji for mostly petty reasons: "you lost a chance to pilot the Eva" / "you didn't come to help me".

Guy Nacks wrote:I remember the days when an Eva Pic Thread would last only a few months until reaching the 100 page limit. This one has taken over 2 years.

That might be the most significant touchstone of all for how slow this forum has gotten in the years since 3.0's release.

It's not unexpected. There's really nothing happening in the Eva world since Q and forums are "dying" on the internet in favour of places like Facebook groups, Twitter or Reddit.

I forget, wasn't there an "Asuka Festival" on twitter time time last year? (I seem to have a picture dated "2016 06 10", which I assume is "YYYY DD MM".) I was saddened to have missed it in real time last year, and cannot find evidence of it repeating this year.

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

It's not that good as a story: it's more of a bunch of sort of good ideas bundled with some rearrangments of scenes from NGE, Death, EoE and 2.0 than a real narrative.It's a what if scenario in which episode 25' happened but without HIP and everything that followed. Shinji is still depressed and a total loner, Asuka is the same as always but with Misato's sex need and they try their best to live in a post-Eva world that doesn't need them.Apparently Rei and Shinji had sex once and Shinji saw it as a big mistake.

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman

I’ll escape now from this world, from the world of Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!Avatar: "There's a Starman, waiting in the sky. He'd like to come and meet me, but he thinks he'd blow my mind."Phew, I’m not tense anymore… now I’m just miserable.People say "be yourself" but that's bad advice, if we were all to "be ourselves" many of us would stop wearing clothes. -Chuckman